Anna Regoutz is an Associate Professor in Experimental Inorganic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and the Tutorial Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at St Edmund Hall. She also holds a Visiting Scientist position at Diamond Light Source. The research vision underpinning Anna’s research is to explore the structure-electronic structure relationship in inorganic solids and how this manifests in their overall physico-chemical characteristics to integrate them into opto-electronic devices. She leads an interdisciplinary team of experimentalists with key expertise in thin film synthesis, surface and interface chemistry, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Anna received her BSc (2009) and Dipl. Ing. (2010) from the Graz University of Technology, Austria. During the Master’s programme (Dipl. Ing., DI) she concentrated on “Surface and Interface Technologies”. Whilst studying at Graz she worked at Infineon Technologies Austria, Villach, Austria, where she conducted research for her Master’s thesis titled “Evaluation of Decapsulation Methods for Semiconductor Devices”.

She conducted her D.Phil. research in Inorganic Chemistry between 2010 and 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Russell Egdell at the University of Oxford, UK, and Trinity College, Oxford, UK. Her research focused on structural and electronic properties of metal oxides. During this time she was awarded a graduate scholarship by Trinity College, and served as the President of the Middle Common Room at Trinity College from 2011-2013. During the academic year 2012/13, she held a non-stipendiary lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. Anna held an Imperial College Research Fellowship between 2017 and 2019 in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She was a CAMS-UK Fellow until 2023. Between 2019 and 2024 she was a Lecturer in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at University College London.

Anna was awarded the IUPAC Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry for 2025 for “her leadership of an interdisciplinary team of researchers exploring the structure-electronic structure relationship in inorganic solids with a goal of integrating such materials into opto-electronic devices”. Anna was previously awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Joseph Black Award “for outstanding contributions to the development and application of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy in the area of electronic materials and devices” in 2020 and the element Praseodymium in the Periodic Table of Chemists by the IUPAC in 2019. Her efforts in teaching were awarded the Student Academic Choice Award for Best Teaching for Undergraduates at Imperial in 2018 and the Materials Lecturer of the Year award from the Royal School of Mines in 2019. Anna is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Anna is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), the Institute of Physics (MInstP), the Materials Research Society, and the Society of Austrian Chemists GÖCH. She is part of the Inorganic Materials for Advanced Manufacturing Centre for Doctoral Training (IMAT CDT) management team and was the Co-Director (UCL) for Admissions of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials between UCL, Imperial College, and Trinity College Dublin from 2018 – 2024. She serves as a member of several international and national committees, including the Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) Multidisciplinary Facility User Advisory Panel, the EPSRC Physical Sciences Frontier Challenges Advisory Group, the Atoms to Devices Steering Group of the Henry Royce Institute, the Advisory Board of the International HAXPES Conference, Diamond Light Source Peer Review Panel 4e, and the Project Review Panel “Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)” at PETRA III/DESY, Hamburg, Germany. She is also a Science Team Member of the UK XFEL Science Case Exercise in the Nano & Quantum Materials section. From 2023 – 2024 she was a Faculty Lead Green Champion for the Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Science at University College London, championing sustainability. The group laboratory has held a Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) gold accreditation since 2023.

Anna was a Specialty Chief Editor in the Chemistry section of Frontiers for Young Minds, an open-access scientific journal written by scientists and reviewed by children. In 2020 she was featured in the Merck/Sigma Next Great Impossible Campaign and in 2024 was chosen for the Leading Light series of Diamond Light Source.